chumpy

Short and fat, particularly in comparison with something of more favourable dimensions.

Adjective

  1. Short and fat, particularly in comparison with something of more favourable dimensions.
    • The Navigating compass should stand about five feet above the deck, […]. This is a convenient height for the officer of the deck, unless perchance he may be chumpy, in which case he may be permitted to use a step. -...
    • A chumpy neck is especially bad; for while a little dog may get along on a foot scent with a short neck, a comparatively large and unwieldy dog tires himself terribly by the necessity for crouching in his fast pace. -...
    • Susan Bennett sat rigid, smoothing her skirt round her chumpy thighs and fixing her gaze on the wall above Marissa Caldwell. - 2000, Michael James, That'll Teach You!:
  2. Blockheaded; dim-witted.
  3. Like a chump; annoying.

Origin

From chump + -y.

Forms

chumpier chumpiest

Synonyms

dumpy dubby